Major interior projects often involve dealing with an architect, and many inte- rior designers say that the best results come when the design professionals work in
close collaboration. Some of them don’t mean it.

Jean Verbridge does, and she walks the walk every
day as founder and principal of Siemasko + Verbridge, the design firm she and architect Thaddeus
Siemasko started 15 years ago in Beverly, Massachusetts. The consonant partners met when they
were coincidentally working on a residential design
project together.

“There was a bit of tension on that first job,but then we realized there was enough work togo around and we could come to decisions fromdifferent vantage points.”

soon after, siemasko was hired for another job and
brought in Verbridge to handle the interiors. The
rest is, as they say, history.

“I had been working on my own for about five
years and the timing seemed right. We wanted to
have continuity in the work we do. We had respect
for what the other person does and saw the value
in each discipline.”

Jean Verbridge Raises the Bar

A consummate
professional, she is
striving to get interior
designers the respect
and work they deserve
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